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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: readline is not quite independent of bash
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Date: 18 Sep 89 16:04:09 GMT
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   Date: 18 Sep 89 11:00:51 GMT
   From: garfield!stretch!jeff1@uunet.uu.net  (Jeff Sparkes)
   Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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	   I copied readline into the gdb directory to make use of my
   extra vi stuff, and had to define the following to get it to link:

   int follow_symbolic_links = 1;
   char *the_current_working_directory = 0;
   char *get_working_directory ();
   char *make_absolute ();
   pathname_backup ();


This is not a bash bug.

Readline is not officially released yet.

You have to compile it as a separate library, without defining -DSHELL
(which is why you had the problem linking).

Brian